In this chapter, we learn that the princess's father, General Bai, is dead. He was poisoned by the woman who married the chief and humiliated her father. The princess blames the woman for causing her father's death. She says that the woman tricked the boy into poisoning her father, which caused her father to become stupid later in life. She tells us that the family has to pay for the crime they have committed. General Bai tells the princess that she is a rat for taking advantage of him. He tells her that if she still refuses to go with him to meet her father at the pass, he will have no choice but to kill her.